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4:15 PM ET, April 16, 2023

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William Thornton / al.com:
Dadeville birthday party mass shooting: 4 dead, 20 reportedly injured  —  Four people are dead and as many as 20 reportedly injured following a shooting at a birthday party in Dadeville Saturday night, according to multiple reports.  —  The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency reported …
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Elizabeth White / WRBL-TV:
More than 20 shot at Dadeville gathering, investigators on scene  —  DADEVILLE, Ala. (WRBL) - A celebration turned violent in downtown Dadeville Saturday night as a shooting left more than 20 people injured according to law enforcement on the scene.  —  According to witnesses …
WSFA-TV:
Multiple deaths, injuries in Alabama birthday party mass shooting  —  ALEA confirms 4 people have died and multiple others are injured  —  DADEVILLE, Ala. (WSFA) - State and local officials called a 10 a.m. news conference to provide updates on an Alabama mass shooting that took the lives of four and injured multiple others.
Discussion: Breitbart and Fox News
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: DeSantis super PAC strafes Trump in first TV ad  —  Video  —  The super PAC backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis today debuts its first TV ad, charging straight at former President Trump with the loaded question: “What happened to Donald Trump?”  — Never Back Down, the pro-DeSantis group …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Liberals Should Hope DeSantis Beats Trump … I am not, to say the least, a fan of Ron DeSantis.  I was one of the first writers to notice his emerging authoritarian ambitions and unnerving success in discovering illiberal uses of state power to intimidate his enemies.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:   Why DeSantis Has to Run  —  The resurgence of Donald Trump in the 2024 primary polls …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Fox News Is on Trial, and So Are Falsehoods About 2020  —  A jury in Delaware will be asked to weigh the limits of the First Amendment.  Another question in the case is whether the network will pay a financial penalty for disseminating election lies.  —  WILMINGTON, Del. — On Monday …
Discussion: CNN, Associated Press and Mother Jones
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Erin Moriarty / CBS News:
Dominion vs. Fox News: The case against conspiracy theories
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
How a Campaign Against Transgender Rights Mobilized Conservatives  —  Defeated on same-sex marriage, the religious right went searching for an issue that would re-energize supporters and donors.  The campaign that followed has stunned political leaders across the spectrum.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Political Wire
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Russians boasted that just 1% of fake social profiles are caught, leak shows  —  The estimate is contained in a document that is part of a trove of top secret material leaked in a Discord chatroom  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The Russian government has become far more successful at manipulating social media …
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
The military loved Discord for Gen Z recruiting. Then the leaks began.
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Trump turns from past to future at RNC donor retreat  —  The former president traded his election grievance rhetoric for a forward-looking vision for party and country, according to a copy of his Nashville remarks obtained by POLITICO.  —  NASHVILLE — Donald Trump stood …
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump, facing probes, seeks to assert dominance over GOP at donor retreat
Discussion: Bloomberg and Politico
Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
2 Dead in Louisville Chickasaw Park Shooting  —  The gunfire in a Louisville park came as hundreds of people were outside enjoying a warm spring night.  It comes just days after a mass shooting in the same city.  —  Two people were dead and four others injured after a shooting at a park in Louisville …
Discussion: Fox News
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can't count on family support to take on Biden  —  The Kennedys have been through a lot.  They don't want to go through this.  —  No name has appeared on more ballots or lawn signs.  Even across branches of the family that have grown distant and divided since …
Wall Street Journal:
Social-Media Account Overseen by Former Navy Noncommissioned Officer Helped Spread Secrets  —  An American administrator of the Donbas Girl blogger network uses a pro-Russian persona across online platforms  —  A social-media account overseen by a former U.S. Navy noncommissioned officer …
Discussion: Political Wire
Joyce E. Lupiani / WAGA-TV:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene defends man accused of leak, demands answers about Ukraine  —  ATLANTA - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is defending Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira, who has been arrested in connection with a high-profile investigation into leaked documents.
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Gun absolutists don't trust democracy because they know they're losing  —  Gunned-down children don't seem to change the political equation on guns.  Neither do dead teachers.  Are parents petrified to send their sons and daughters to school?  Tough.  I expect the next new slogan on right-wing T-shirts will be: “Arm the Kids!”
Discussion: New York Daily News
CBS News:
Most want abortion pill to remain available — CBS News poll  —  A big majority of Americans want to see the abortion pill mifepristone remain available.  Even some who are more generally opposed to abortion hold this view.  —  On a broader level, American women feel access to reproductive health care …
Discussion: Insider and NBC News
 
 
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